Agora

In ancient Athens, the agora was the central location where citizens gathered to hear news, discuss and, later, trade. The agora was the heart of the city’s political, cultural and spiritual life and it gave birth to the Greek word for speaking in public: ἀγορεύω (agorevo). It is this spirit we hope to channel in this section of the website.

Here, the Agora is a public forum for discussing events that are unfolding in Greece and beyond. Contributors to Macropolis, as well as guest posters, share their views on political, economic and other matters, while also offering readers the opportunity to express their opinions. As always, those who fail to respect the sanctity of this forum will not be allowed to share in its benefits.

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The diversions of the past

In a week that Greece marked the 49th anniversary of a group of colonels seizing power and embarking on a destructive and divisive seven-year reign of terror and backwardness, one would have thought the responsibility rests with the country’s current leaders (who were not even born then) to show that Greeks are capable of leaving the disunion of the past behind them.

28/04/2016 - 12:34

Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis

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Categories: Politics (171), Greece (260)

Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings

At the Eurogroup that took place in Amsterdam last week, Greece’s lenders decided to “stack” more measures just as the director of the International Monetary Fund’s European department Poul Thomsen appears to have predicted in the leaked teleconference recently published by WikiLeaks.

25/04/2016 - 16:19

Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis

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Categories: Economy (169), Greece (260)

What next for Tsipras the shapeshifter?

In the shapeshifting world of Alexis Tsipras, it is difficult to know where things actually stand. His relatively brief time in power is littered with skins that have been shed and vows that have been broken.

13/04/2016 - 13:01

Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis

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Categories: Europe (119), Politics (171), Economy (169), Greece (260)

The men who would be prime ministers

There has been much consternation in Greece over the last few years about the economy’s inability to grow and produce sectors that can flourish. The country’s politicians have come up with a unique way of tackling this problem by creating a growth industry of their own: founding new political parties.

07/04/2016 - 22:53

Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis

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Categories: Politics (171), Greece (260)

Tsipras and the IMF: Another miscalculation?

Following Saturday’s leak of the exchange between the International Monetary Fund’s European Department director Poul Thomsen and the head of the mission to Greece Delia Velculescu, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s reading of the situation and his reaction to the WikiLeaks publication were puzzling.

05/04/2016 - 09:58

Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis

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Categories: Economy (169), Greece (260)

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